UBS Arena, home of NHL’s New York Islanders, gets JBL treatment

UBS Arena in the New York City area, and home to the New York Islanders NHL team, was recently built and equipped with nearly 1,000 JBL Professional loudspeakers.

Opened in 2021, UBS Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Long Island, New York. Home to the NHL’s New York Islanders, UBS Arena has a capacity of 19,000 and hosts basketball games, concerts, corporate events and professional wrestling broadcasts in addition to Islanders’ home games.

To provide world-class audio experiences for fans and attendees of a wide range of events, the newly constructed facility required a state-of-the-art arena audio solution.

The solution – designed by consultant group Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Williams, Inc. and installed by integrators Diversified – consists of over 950 JBL loudspeakers, including eight main bowl arrays of JBL VTX A12 speakers and S28 subwoofers, and a variety of PD Series, AWC Series, VRX Series, Series loudspeakers in balcony, concourse, back-of-house and delay positions.

The entire system is powered by Crown I-Tech Series and DCi Series amplifiers, with network control and signal processing provided by BSS Soundweb London devices.